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Why do people keep fierce dogs?

Just reading about the recent incident of someone's dog attacking it's owner's own son.

There are so many breeds of dogs out there, some are pretty, some are ugly, some are cute, while others are not, but most are not that fierce.

Just can't understand why some people have to keep fierce and aggressive dogs like dobermann, pit bull, etc, and put theirs and other people's lives in danger? There are hundreds of other less aggressive dogs you can choose from, which are safer to your community.

You are waiting for disaster to happen. One never knows when the dog will become furious. We have heard from news about incidents that the owners' dogs attacked their kids at home! After such incidents happened, these owners always give the same answer that their dogs were friendly & well behaved before the tragedies happened; They never expected their dogs to behave in such manner at all.

Who knows if these dogs have inherited genes from previous dogs which had bad history of attacking people.

Dun own dogs cos my entire family hates animals of any kind, but den I generally find most dogs I encounter pretty friendly. They don't bite me and approach me tails wagging.

Note: Don't ever bend over the dog and start patting on its head. Imagine if someone taller den u bends over and starts patting ur head. Just bend down, let them sniff u. Scratch them on the neck and rub their backs and side. Most dogs I'd encountered, like that.